by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Going green can save you some green

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May 7, 20072 mins

Forecast for the week: greener, with a chance of green: Get your green on with the latest energy- and resource-saving tidbits. Ted Samson sat down with Sun's vice president of eco-responsibility to talk about sustainability on the eve of JavaOne - watch the video here. And over in the Sustainable IT blog, Ted's got the lowdown on OSS's Green Series Gemini Servers. The Green Series sports a high-efficiency power

Forecast for the week: greener, with a chance of green: Get your green on with the latest energy- and resource-saving tidbits. Ted Samson sat down with Sun’s vice president of eco-responsibility to talk about sustainability on the eve of JavaOne – watch the video here. And over in the Sustainable IT blog, Ted’s got the lowdown on OSS’s Green Series Gemini Servers. The Green Series sports a high-efficiency power supply and uses less power (meaning less out of your pocket when those bills come due), but it also has a modular design that lets you swap in and swap out drives, memory, and other resources as needed. Nice.

Worm alert: A new Trojan worm is out there, and this one has a twist — it’s carried by USB drives. So far, Sophos researchers say there’s no evidence of a payload, but it wouldn’t take much to add malicious code. The lesson: don’t hook up with unknown devices, and practice safe USB connections (whatever that may be).

Stupid is as stupid does: It’s baaa-aack! Last year’s tales of stupid user tricks proved that lots of people have the same experiences when it comes to dealing with less-than-bright employees. This year, we’ve got 10 more impressively dumb tricks – take a look and see if any of these are (unfortunately) familiar.